On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Implementing the Dublin core using the existing <meta> tag is a Quick Solution.
> It is Not Perfect. It gives us a start.
Exactly. Its a quick fix(tm) that gets DC out there and in use whilst we
then proceed to work on more powerful concrete representations for other
applications (SGML for storage, WHOIS++/LDAP for distributed searching,
etc, etc).
> We should *not* try to shoehorn more into the limited solutions possible with
> existing HTML tags. This means I regard with deep disquiet the baroque syntax
> emanating from our friends in the north.
If you mean me and Paul then I think we're just trying to get the
functionality we both think we need for use inside HTML 2.0/3.2. However
I really honestly expect that >90% of DC metadata that will be deployed on
the web embedded in HTML will be just the qualifier-less defaults with no
groupings or other fancy, baroque stuff. As someone said at the Warwick
meeting (I wish I knew who it was so that I could attribute it), "any
metadata is better than no metadata at all" and I'd be dead chuffed if all
we managed to do was get people to put author/creator names in their
documents.
> | Anybody fancy
> |working on that (maybe off list for the moment so the element naming
> |consensus doesn't get flooded out by SGML-heads arguing about DTDs :-) )?
>
> Delighted to. And surely people on this list would benefit from a little
> discussion of dtds?
OK, seeing as embedding metadata in HTML is a popular topic and seeing as
we might want to have people who aren't into Dublin Core involved in
discussions about future proposals for extending it, I've done the dirty
and created a separate mailing list. If you don't mind seeing people
flash their DTDs at you and can handle lots of techies throwing virtual
beanbags at each other, the send a message with the single word
"subscribe" in the body to [log in to unmask] There's
a Hypermail archive available at
<URL:http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/lists/html-metadata/>.
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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